{"id":621,"date":"2019-04-17T10:04:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T10:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tiffanytichota.com\/index.php\/about\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T22:08:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T04:08:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tiffanytichota.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"621\" class=\"elementor elementor-621\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2d33127 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2d33127\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;boxed&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e57741a elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"e57741a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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elementor - v3.17.0 - 25-10-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a1efa5a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a1efa5a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;boxed&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-067ff72 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"067ff72\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9027429 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-tablet__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9027429\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.17.0 - 25-10-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Oh my goodness, thanks for being curious and landing on my about page, you&#8217;re fabulous!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>I was born in Korea, the South one, in 1966.\u00a0 Have you ever had those moments in your childhood where you didn&#8217;t feel like a kid?\u00a0 I always had this knowing that I was not the age of my body, that I was me, without a particular age.\u00a0 In this picture, I think I am around 5, dressed in a traditional Korean dress or Hanbok, loving life and the embodiment of this sweet body!<\/p><p>Korea back then was still recovering from the war, hardly any trees existed.\u00a0 Notice how I am by one?\u00a0 Whenever I was in nature, oh my goodness, my whole body would fill up with gladness, a sense of belonging, and that melty energy that would fill my heart with joy!\u00a0 I also had regular premonitions, DeJa&#8217;Vu and all kinds of other cool capacities.\u00a0 Nothing scared me, I made friends wherever I went and was in connection with energies that assisted me to actualize things with ease.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>All of that went to the wayside after I came to America via adoption in 1976.\u00a0 I just wanted to fit in and be like the cool, American kids and so for couple of decades, I chose to try to fit in.\u00a0 The American dream was going to be mine and that&#8217;s what I created my life as.\u00a0 I achieved everything, had the piece of the American pie after 17 years of being a Photographer in the Twin Cities and yet, when I had the success, the money and all the fixings, I was burned out, desperately unhappy and left feeling empty.\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-4); color: var(--ast-global-color-3);\">WTF?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>I am a wee bit dramatic, so I decided to sell everything I owned to study spirituality, yoga, meditation, metaphysics, etc&#8230; I became a seeker of something greater because what I had was supposed to have been the best of the best of this reality and when that left me hollow, I asked the universe for help.\u00a0 And boy, did I get it!\u00a0 I had a kundalini awakening, followed by a year of bliss, traveled around the US, met a gorgeous man, married him, got pregnant and then my awareness grew to the point where I was picking up on everybody&#8217;s yuck, muck and WTF.\u00a0 Goodbye bliss, hello everyone&#8217;s thoughts, feelings and emotions!\u00a0 I had no clue most of the heaviness wasn&#8217;t mine, nobody told me how awareness works!\u00a0 If I am perceiving it, it must be me, mine and I am more screwed up than I thought!\u00a0 I&#8217;m so dramatic, yet again!\u00a0 Plus, all the childhood adoption trauma reared its angry head, my body was a hurting unit!\u00a0<\/p><p>As I went through the &#8220;dark night of the soul&#8221; (or I affectionately call none of that was mine yet I totally bought into all of the heavy judgments as who I was) I secretly thought me and my body were bad, awful and terrible, so I hid that secret deep in my heart, dare anyone would ever find out!\u00a0 <span style=\"text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-4); color: var(--ast-global-color-3); font-size: 1rem;\">What a blessing to have a beautiful baby choose me as a mom, it was a catalyst to reclaim all parts of me that I had cut off, buried, stapled and shut away into the deep and dark recesses of me. I kept asking myself, if my baby is this precious, then why am I not? <\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-4); color: var(--ast-global-color-3);\">Learning to be totally vulnerable with whatever judgements bubbled up to the surface so that I could be aware of it, then heal it was deeply satisfying. It was also really hard work.\u00a0 I was slowly getting out of depression, panic attacks, anxiety, mysterious body pains, you know, the usual PTSD symptoms.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>Yet, it was a slow process, and I don&#8217;t know about you, but I like things &#8220;bally, bally&#8221; or Korean for faster, faster! So, I asked for that. <span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-4); color: var(--ast-global-color-3);\">\u00a0&#8220;Ask and you shall receive&#8221; and voila, I was introduced to the tools of Access Consciousness!\u00a0 Talk about fast!\u00a0 And did I mention fun? And different?\u00a0 And ease?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>I played with all the free tools Dr. Dain Heer, the cofounder of Access Consciousness, had on YouTube that I could get my hands on for a year.\u00a0 Then I took my first Bars class just as COVID was shutting everything down.\u00a0 During the pandemic, using the tools of Access Consciousness and running Bars on each other weekly, my family and I thrived.\u00a0 We bought the home of our dreams, had the best staycation of our lives, home schooling was easier than we could have ever imagined, and our family relationship got greater.\u00a0 I found myself liking me like never before.<\/p><p>All thanks to the tools!\u00a0 Trusting me to know that I know, I followed the lightness of energy and chose many more classes, certifications and kept learning by using and playing with the tools in all aspects of my life.\u00a0 I&#8217;m so happy to say that I am free from all of the PTSD symptoms, panic, attacks, anxiety, depression, etc&#8230;\u00a0 \u00a0My body feels amazing and I am filled with gratitude and enthusiasm for these amazing energetic techniques! 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